Danielle RalstonFounder, How Capacity Works · Founder of ND Hive | Building the productivity hub where work actually gets done | Execution spaces, body doubling & community accountability

Finding Community: The Secret Weapon Against Overstimulation

10 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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Danielle Ralston shares how joining a community helped her build a business, coach newcomers, and expand her creative work while relieving stress through mutual support and useful advice from a network that works asynchronously.

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And I believe, you know, and I've only been in the community since January of last year, or this year, or whenever. It's been a long time. It feels longer, but it's not. But still, within that timeframe, I have been able to build a business, coach new people. I've been able to expand my creativity into a way that I wanted to, and get good advice and good suggestions, and also being able to alleviate some of that heaviness that we carry. Because when I'm feeling stressed and heavy, all I need to do is just reach out to the Community and the Community's like, hey, what's going on? And it's not always the same person and it's not always the same thing and it's not always going to be at the same time. But there's still that connection there that allows us to know, okay, we're going to be okay. I mean, it just branches out into such a supportive area and Community that it's— you can't even realize it until you're in it.